This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better, than ill known : Rumour can ope the grave. The Essays of Abraham Cowley - Page 119by Abraham Cowley - 1868 - 199 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Shiells - 1753 - 366 pages
...fatisfy the reader's curiofity by inferting it here. IX. This only grant me, that my means may lye, Too low for envy', for contempt too high : Some honour...would have ; Not from great deeds, but good alone, The unkaown are better than ill knows, Rumour can ope the grave: Acquaintance I would have, but when 't... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 298 pages
...little were corrected), I fhould hardly now be muc.h afhamed. This only grant me, that my means may Ijc Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour...good alone ; The unknown are better, than ill known : Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance I would have, but when 't depends Not on the number, but the... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 228 pages
...part, which I here fet down (if a very little were corrected), I mould hardly now be much afhamed. This only grant me, that my means- may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. K 2 Some Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better, than'... | |
| John Bell - 1777 - 658 pages
...the guard defend me. IX. This only grant me, that my means may lie 65 Too low for envy, for eontempt too high. .Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; Th' unknowers are better than ill known : Rumour ean ope the grave. 70 Aequaintants I would have,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 384 pages
...Fortune, now ! And chines of beef innumerable fend me, Or from the ftomach of the guard defend me. This only grant me, 'that my means may lie Too low for...I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; Th' unknown are better than ill-known ; Rumour can ope the grave ! Acquaintance I would have ; but... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 296 pages
...Fortune, now ! And chines of beef innumerable fend me, Or from the ftomach of the guard defend me. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy,...I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; Th' unknown are better than ill-known ; Rumour can ope the grave ! Acquaintance I would have ; but... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 pages
...now, And chines of beef innumerable fend me, Or from the ftomach of the guard defend me. ix. , / This only grant me, that my means may lie / Too low for...too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deed*, but good alone : Th' unknown are better than ill known : Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 pages
...me, Ot from the ftomach of the guard defend me. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low fur envy, for contempt too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, bnt good alone ; Tli" unknown arc better than ill-known ; Rumour can ope the grave ! Acquaintance I... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 290 pages
...which I here set down (if a very little were corrected), I should hardly now be much ashamed. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy,...I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; Th' unknown are better than ill known : Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance I would have, but... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...which I here set down (if a very little were corrected), I should hardly now be much ashamed. 9. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy,...I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; Th' unknown are better than ill known. Rumour can ope* the grave : Acquaintance I would have ; but... | |
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